1 It was the first coin to use a 12-sided shape, and was worth one 80th of a pound. 2  It replaced the older silver threepenny bit, often used as a prize in Christmas puddings. 3  A silver threepence is still manufactured in very small numbers by the Royal Mint for inclusion in sets of Maundy Money.mage caption The Royal Mint is introducing the new coin as it believes 3% of existing Â£1 coins are fake. A new Â£1 coin, billed by the Royal Mint as the most secure coin in the world, is to be introduced in 2017.
The official language spoken in the Dominican Republic is Spanish. However, dialects are spoken across the country. The local dialect of the Dominican Republic is called Dominican Spanish and has some African influences. Moreover, it has borrowed vocabularies from the Arawak language.
English and Haitian Creole by far the highest (Note: Haitian Creo â¦ le is only spoken by Haitians living in the Dominican Republic). Other languages spoken in the Dominican Republic are, East Caribbean English Creole and Arabic.he 1 official language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is French. (FYI, french is also the official language of the Republic of the Congo). Here is a list of all 217 â¦ languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: 1. Alur 2.